Authored by Ryan Young, CEI Fellow in Regulatory
Affairs, the Regulatory Report Card puts the cost of FCC regulations "at $142 billion per
year, making it the third most expensive branch of regulation." Also, the
number of new regulations the FCC imposes annually is staggering. To wit,
"Federal agencies published a total of 3,706 final rules in 2012. Of
those, 108 came from the FCC, for an average of one new final FCC rule every
2.3 working days." Moreover:

The fall 2012 Unified Agenda lists 86 rules from the
FCC in various stages of the regulatory pipeline. Seven of them are "economically
significant," meaning they impose at least $100 million in economic impact
in a given year.

For more facts and figures revealing the FCC's trend
of increasing regulation despite the growth of competitive market conditions,
see the Regulatory Report Card.